CDROMS Not Reading Certain CDs

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 07:44:00PM -0400, Howard Gibson wrote:
>    My computer came with an ATAPI CD-ROM which has worked perfectly to date.  Since then, I have added a CD-RW, a Yamaha CDRW6416S, running from a SCSI card.  CD recording works fine.  It reads most commercial CDs without problems.  It does not read its own recorded CDs, although my CD-ROM works fine.
> 
>    I am now hacking with a second hand PIII/733, and I am having possibly the same problem.  I can boot Fedora_2 from the Linux Bible, but then the program announces it cannot find the Fedora Core CD in any of my CDROM drives.  My old Red Hat_8 CD seems to work fine.  My CD-RW will not read the Fedora_2 CD either.
> 
>    The only thing I can find in common about the two CD_ROMs is that neither is connected to a sound card.  Does this make sense to anyone?

Is sr_mod loaded?  Are you using /dev/scd0 when trying to mount the scsi
cd writer?

It is also possible the drive is broken (I have seen writers that could
burn but not read in the past due to hardware failure.)

Lennart Sorensen
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